The European Commission rejected Italy’s draft 2019 budget on Tuesday, saying it brazenly broke EU rules on public spending, and asked Rome to submit a new one within three weeks or face disciplinary action. Italian bond yields jumped on the unprecedented move by the EU executive which was exerting for ... Read More »
British Prime Minister Theresa May will address Conservative Party lawmakers at a private meeting in parliament on Wednesday after anger at her Brexit negotiating strategy prompted some of them to discuss toppling her. May asked to address her divided party’s powerful “1922 Committee” where she can expect questions from lawmakers, ... Read More »
When Washington ‘understands the difficult conditions’ its militia allies are facing and says it ‘advises’ the Russians and Syrians not to violate a ceasefire – which was Moscow’s idea in the first place – you know that the Americans are pulling the carpet from beneath another set of allies It ... Read More »
Russia said on Monday it would be forced to respond in kind to restore the military balance with the United States if President Donald Trump carried through on a threat to quit a nuclear arms treaty and began developing new missiles. But Moscow signaled it may be willing to give ... Read More »
A U.S. withdrawal from a Cold War-era nuclear arms treaty with Russia could give the Pentagon new options to counter Chinese missile advances but experts warn the ensuing arms race could greatly escalate tensions in the Asia-Pacific. U.S. officials have been warning for years that the United States was being ... Read More »
Unbelievable’ results could translate to years of extra life for some patients Cutting edge cancer treatments which are currently held back as a last resort for patients with no other options could mean people “live years longer” when used as a first choice, experts have said. Immunotherapies, which reprogramme the ... Read More »
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said in an interview with US television channel Fox on the same day that Prince Mohammed had no knowledge of Khashoggi’s death. The King of Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince sent their condolences to a son of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist ... Read More »
Prime minister takes unusual step of briefing planned Brexit remarks to MPs in advance Theresa May will tell the Commons on Monday that 95% of the Brexit withdrawal agreement and its protocols are settled as she seeks to demonstrate to anxious MPs in her own party that she is making ... Read More »
Former Russian leader weighs in Donald Trump’s decision Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said he thinks Donald Trump is making a “mistake” by leaving its nuclear weapons treaty with Russia. Mr Gorbachev was one of the original signatories to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed originally in 1987 ... Read More »
Residents can now possess and share up to 30 grams of the drug in public Canada has embarked on one of its most ambitious public and economic experiments in decades, with adults now able to buy marijuana legally. Canadians in Newfoundland in the east were the first to have legal ... Read More »
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